Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Business and Economy
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Business and Economy Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Business and Economy
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Business and Economy The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Business and Economy "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Business and Economy
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Business and Economy "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Business and Economy
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Business and Economy "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Business and Economy
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Business and Economy I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Business and Economy
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Business and Economy Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Business and Economy
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Business and Economy The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Business and Economy
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Business and Economy "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Business and Economy
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Business and Economy
